The dotEDU Wrap Party for Policy Nerds

About this episode

In this final episode of 2025, the hosts discuss policy shifts and challenges in higher education while taking questions from listeners.

In this final episode of 2025, hosts Mushtaq Gunja, Sarah Spreitzer, and Jon Fansmith spend the hour taking questions on the policy shifts and challenges campuses are watching most closely and the developments expected to matter early in 2026. Here are some of the links and references from this week's show: Lucy Dacus and Hozier, Bullseye Jason Isbell, Bury Me Stranger Things Season 5 (Netflix)

People in this episode

Hosts: Mushtaq Gunja, Sarah Spreitzer, Jon Fansmith

Topics covered

• policy shifts
• campus challenges
• higher education
• 2026 developments
• music references

Keywords

• policy
• higher education
• 2025
• 2026
• music
• challenges
• campus

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Lucy Dacus, Hozier, Bullseye Jason Isbell, Bury Me Stranger Things Season 5

Places: 2025, 2026

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